v1.3

AMD Capsaicin Framework

• HDR display support (with improved Tone Mapping)
• Display DPI awareness
• FSR integration for upscaling and/or TAA (with FSR 4 support)
• Super Sample Anti-Aliasing with custom downscaling
• Ability to recover from device disconnects
• Enhanced shared texture/buffer negotiation system
• Improved random number generators
• Optimized material sampling and ray traversal
• Light sampling fixes and improvements
• Reduced texture loading memory requirements
• Profiler runtime metrics can now be written to disk
• Updated dependencies to latest versions
• And many bug fixes and smaller improvements

GI1.2

• Multiple bounce indirect lighting feature added
• Minor fixes

v1.2

AMD Capsaicin Framework

• Morph Target animation support (in addition to the existing skinning support)
• Meshlet based rendering (now uses reverse-Z)
• Texture “.dds” loading (supports BC compressed and uncompressed)
• New Tone Mappers: Defaults to ACES with optional Reinhard, Uncharted2, PBR Neutral, and Agx
• Histogram based automatic exposure
• Shader caching for fast loading/reloading
• Bloom effect technique using AMD FidelityFX™ Blur
• Lens effects technique using AMD FidelityFX™ Lens
• Use CMake for dependencies instead of submodules (also supports package managers)
• Support for drag&drop asset file loading
• Improved negotiation system for shared textures/buffers between render techniques
• Camera jump cut automatic detection
• Improved light sampling performance and accuracy
• And many more smaller features, bug fixes, and improved documentation

GI1.1.1

• Minor bug fixes

v1.1

Introduces Glossy reflection rendering

https://gpuopen.com/learn/gi-1-1-glossy-reflection-rendering/

AMD Capsaicin Framework

• Spherical capped VNDF sampling (see our paper)
• Improved light sampling
• DXR1.0 support in addition to DXR1.1
• Improved render option system
• New animation system
• More flexible instancing support
• Improved TBN calculation (supports mirroring and negative scale)
• And many bug fixes and smaller improvements

GI-1.1

• Updated Global Illumination system
• Reflection support (see our paper)

v1.0

AMD Capsaicin Framework v1.0